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diff --git a/src/H5Tpublic.h b/src/H5Tpublic.h
index e595da6..d9284f1 100644
--- a/src/H5Tpublic.h
+++ b/src/H5Tpublic.h
@@ -156,6 +156,9 @@ typedef struct {
void *p; /* Pointer to VL data */
} hvl_t;
+/* Variable Length String information */
+#define H5T_VARIABLE ((size_t)(-1)) /* Indicate that a string is variable length (null-terminated in C, instead of fixed length) */
+
/* All data type conversion functions are... */
typedef herr_t (*H5T_conv_t) (hid_t src_id, hid_t dst_id, H5T_cdata_t *cdata,
size_t nelmts, size_t stride, void *buf,
@@ -460,9 +463,9 @@ __DLL__ herr_t H5Tpack(hid_t type_id);
/* Operations defined on enumeration data types */
__DLL__ hid_t H5Tenum_create(hid_t base_id);
__DLL__ herr_t H5Tenum_insert(hid_t type, const char *name, void *value);
-__DLL__ hid_t H5Tenum_nameof(hid_t type, void *value, char *name/*out*/,
+__DLL__ herr_t H5Tenum_nameof(hid_t type, void *value, char *name/*out*/,
size_t size);
-__DLL__ hid_t H5Tenum_valueof(hid_t type, const char *name,
+__DLL__ herr_t H5Tenum_valueof(hid_t type, const char *name,
void *value/*out*/);
/* Operations defined on variable-length data types */